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It has been a while since my latest figure review because most figures released lately weren’t falling in my DO WANT category. Unlike this figure here which was pretty much love at first sight. After several months of waiting (including  2 months delay) Kiriko finally arrived here last week.

The original character was obviously designed by Shunya Yamashita for an anime/manga/figure/ novel/drama-CD project called “Enka Ōdō Dai Shōgun” from Studio Anima. Studio Anima did the animations for Metal Gear Solid 4, Valkyria Chronicles and Ninja Blade so this could turn out quite well.

More details can be found on the official homepage which is unfortunately only available in Japanese. http://www.studioanima.co.jp/dai-shogun/

The didn’t go with the original, purple colour scheme and used a light-purple-ish one instead. I guess this works far better for such a large figure after all.

The sculpt for Kiriko was done by Yoshizawa Mitsumasa better known as “Reflect”. (He is currently working on a really awesome Asuka figure by the way!)

Kiriko is manufactured by Yamato. Now this can be a problem quality wise, as some of you might know. Not this time! The quality is really great and justifies the 145€ (+shipping & customs) I spent on her. The retail price is 11,800 Yen but even a few days after the release Kiriko was already sold out at most online shops, so I guess by now she will be worth a zillion Yen already.

If you didn’t notice it yet: She is really standing ~340mm tall from head to toe.

After comparing her to some other figures, I guess Kiriko is around 1:5.

Some comrades over @ tsuki-board where worried that Yamato would frak up her face, but it looks like they did a good job after all. Isn’t she gorgeous?

What I really like about her is that she doesn’t need to flash her panties, she doesn’t need DFCs or F-sized oppai to get your attention like all those other bitches half-naked figures. Nope, Kiriko just needs to be herself, a classy Ninja girl. ^_^

Quite a simple pose but I guess it’s exactly that simplicity that  gives her some sort of elegance.

Although some said that her bottom isn’t fat muchi muchi enough for them, I don’t see a problem there. She is a ninja, ready to rip your head off before you even notice it which means her body is thoroughly fit. Nothing wrong there.

Rawwr, great looking ponytail.  Her hairpin can be removed by the way.

Kirikos armour is quite well done. Love those read bits mixed with the black armour.

Her sword comes separately and needs some squeezing to put it in place.

While the tassels (Have those things a certain name?) are made of PVC the cords are made from real fabric.

The base comes with a nice iMac-effect mirror-effect, great to observe some figure panties on the shelve above her.

Unfortunately nothing is 100% perfect in the 3D world.  There is a small problem with that base. Kiriko doesn’t stand completely upright. It actually looks worse on the picture but she is slightly leaning to the right. I’m wondering how I should fix this, maybe glue her to the base?

The first promotional pictures showed her with a wooden base. Maybe she would have been more stable with that?

Overall this figure will be among my all time favourites from now on for sure. At first I was little bit shocked when I unboxed her cause the armour had some white smudges. Turned out to that this was just some white dust, so I guess it was something left over from the the production process.

Yamato and Reflect did a great job and I’m really looking forward to see more from Enka Ōdō Dai Shōgun. Wondering when we will here some news regarding the anime.

My next blog post should follow in a few days and contain a certain black box, a high-tech Japanese cooling solution, a just released Gigabyte main board and more. Yes, it’s finally time to upgrade my rig!